if you have to name your child after a trade, why don't you give
them a headstart, as eg --- "Mutibillionaire", "Man of Leisure",
"Natasha Hentsridge Clone"????
Instead of Taylor, Carpenter, and all those ridiculous recent first names
that Americans have been naming their kids.
I'd like to think they are just being egalitarian, but they are not.
It's pretty obvious they think it's somewhat British, somewhat posh
sounding
but it's not.
I was working on the possibility of adding Aidan Quinn to my not even
slightly talented list. he is not
technically yet allowed. As soon as the press gives him some
attention, tho....I am in there. I have been slowly compiling a
list of his mumbled pieces, including the movie I saw him in with Teeth
Roberts
who in any event, has made it to the new Tom Hanks movie where she
reputedly
takes off her top and does very little acting
----- Original Message -----
From: "marika" <marika5000@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Newsgroups: alt.usage.english,alt.folklore.computers
Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2007 11:17 PM
Subject: Re: What do YOU call the # sign?
>
> "Kelli Halliburton" <kelli217@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> news:sRh9j.19241$Mu4.18327@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Morten Reistad wrote:
>>> Telecom setups are very similar. They trust a battery bank for
>>> the baseload. Such batteries are extremely good at stabilising
>>> power. They will absorb hundreds of kilowatts worth of overvoltage;
>>> sinking it until even the slowest fuse blows. It will also
>>> source tens of kilowatts to a brownout; also giving time to blow
>>> a fuse. Go google for "the room that painted itsef", a mainstay story
>>> in alt.dcom.telecom.tech.
>
>>
>> Is it supposed to be in the Usenet group archives? Because it isn't.
>> Google does not find anything on the web with the exact phrase "room
that
>> painted itself". A search of Google groups finds only a previous
>> reference
>> by you to the story in this newsgroup, not the story itself.
>> Group-specific searches in alt.dcom.telecom and comp.dcom.telecom.tech
>> yield no results.
>>
>> Can you post the story, please?
>
> A woman having dinner next to me last night described the scotch her
> boyfriend asked her to try as "battery acid gone bad"
>
> mk5000
>
> "I've got a cold. I don't know why they picked this hotel. I've never
> done
> interviews here before. I never come here at all. I feel stupid. I
can
> hear the Pretty Woman soundtrack in my head"--Julia Roberts
>
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